AN EXPLORATION OF WHY PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS 'INGEST' INNOVATIONS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Fernandez, Sergio; Wise, Lois R.
• 署名单位: Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2010.01857.x
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 979-998
• 关键词: PERFORMANCE-MEASUREMENT; EXECUTIVE MIGRATION; management; determinants; adoption; MODEL

摘要

Organizational change sometimes occurs as organizations 'ingest' innovations from without. This process represents a vital form of organizational learning and adaptation to the external environment. This study seeks to understand the factors that predict the adoption of Foreign Professional Specialty Occupation Visas, or H-1B visas, by Texas public school districts. The use of H-1B visas to hire foreign skilled workers is a staffing innovation that is growing in use among public and private organizations. Three sets of factors frequently used in studies of organizational innovation are considered: organizational size and slack; attitudes and dispositions of organizational leaders; and environmental influences. The findings contribute to our understanding of ingested innovations, indicating that slack resources, influences from the task and institutional environments, and the organizational leader's disposition and behaviour relating to change influence the probability of adopting this staffing innovation.